Sony has not mentioned which notebook product lines would be
affected by the recall, but the news sends the current tally of recalled units
over the 8 million mark. With Sony on the verge of having a recall of its own
on its hands, Hewlett-Packard may be reconsidering its position on recalling
batteries. The company has previously stated that none
of its products would be affected by the recall.

Sony’s battery problems are affecting the whole industry as reported by DailyTech yesterday Analysts say
that the recall has caused a global shortage of batteries sending prices
skyward by 15%. The cost of the recall is sure to climb as well. Sony as of now
has $251 million USD budgeted for the recall, but those estimates may have to
be revised to take into account a few million new recalled units.

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Maybe there should be a special ticker on the sidebar of DT to keep track of all the Sony battery recalls. It would certainly save the DT staff some time from having to write 3 stories per day about it. LOL

The number of articles just goes to show how much Sony will lose. What is it up to now? 4.5 million batteries? Let's say it costs $15 to ship the defective battery in and destroy/recycle it. That's $67,500,000 Sony just threw away. They're already losing money on the PS3. This has to be seriously affecting their company.

Okay let's see...extra battery from Dell costs about $100, let's say there's a 30% markup, so it cost Dell $77. It's probably less than that but whatever.

Sony needs a profit too, so let's say it costs Sony $50 to make a battery and ship it out.

$15 to get a destroy the old one + $50 to make and ship a new one = $65/battery replaced.

8 million batteries * $65/battery = $585 million.

Judging by the price of standalone blu-ray players, the PS3 probablt costs $500-$600 for Sony to make. So the retailers probably get it for $490-$590...that's $10 lost on every system (this is probably a very low estimate). 500,000 systems on launch day = $5 million lost. R&D costs for PS3 are probably at least $100 million.

Okay let's total this up:

batteries: $585,000,000
ps3: $105,000,000
total: $690,000,000

That's a lot of costs to absorb. I'll be surprised if Sony is still in business in two years.

That number can be at 1 billion dollars for all that matters and Sony will still be alive, because in the US Sony may not be number one but in S.E. Asia Sony is the shit, and always will be. Trust me, it'll be around after two years.